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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 99157

This covers each additional block of time that a separate qualified provider spends administering sedation medication and monitoring a patient during a procedure performed by a different physician. It is used when a procedure runs longer than the initial sedation period already accounted for.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider cost?

$123

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $123 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $126 from a physician practice, and about $66.07 from a hospital or other facility.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$126$107 to $138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$66.07$53.70 to $112

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $66 · 10th to 90th $45 to $126Professionalmedian $126 · 10th to 90th $83 to $166
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $66professional $126

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$58.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$97.72
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$138.04
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$257.04
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$389.05
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$134.90
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$165.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$162.18
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$10.72

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in New York. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Nebraska· 2nd of 51

$123

AK $158NY $51.29

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.